Gutter for stables.



W. ARMSTRONG.

GUTTER FOR STABLES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 16; 1916.

mzwm Patented Apr. 10,1917.

1 E v F5 lit) WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, OF WADENA, MINNESOTA.

GUTTER FOR STABLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 1G2, 11917.

Application filed lTune 16, 1916. Serial No. 104,121.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Nadena, in the county of Wadena and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gutters for Stables, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to gutters for stables.

The object of my invention is to produce a removable lining or receptacle adapted to be normally located in the gutter at the rear of the stall of an animal to receive the stable droppings and to be conveyed outside of the stable to have the contents removed.

To these ends my invention includes the combination and arrangement of component parts to be hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters indicate similar parts:

Figure l is the rear View of a stable stall equipped with my gutter.

Fig. 2 is a transverse view of the same.

Fig. 3 is an end view of the over-head carrier of my invention;

Fig. 1 is top view of one end of my gutter receptacle showing the pivoted lever and latch, and

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the opposite end showing the latch for holding the receptacle in separable engagement with its supporting chains.

My invention includes, generally, a track suspended from the ceiling of a stable above the center of the gutter, a plurality of hangers suspended upon wheels carried on said track, a longitudinal shaft carried on suitable bearings in said hangers, a dished receptacle normally carried in said gutters and suspended upon said shaft by flexible chains, a latch for engaging the chains on.

one side of the receptacles, a cog for revolving said shaft to wind the flexible chains thereon, and a worm operated by a wheel for revolving the shaft to raise the receptacle from the gutter when it may be conveyed longitudinally of the track outside of the stable.

Referring now to the drawings, 1 indi-.

cates a joist in the ceiling of a stable, and 2 designates a track supported thereon by the hangers 3 secured on the joist. Said track is located above the center of the gutter 41 at the rear of the stable stalls. Carried on said track are a plurality of hangers 7 depending from the wheels 6 which run on the track. The lo-wer'ends of the "hangers are provided with suitable bearings 7 in which the longitudinal shaft 8 is rotatably carried.

beneath one edge of the receptacle while the other member 10 is separately attached to the opposite edge. As shown in the drawings, a plurality of pairs of eye boltsl? are secured on the latter edge of the receptacle at spaced intervals, the shanks of which project through longitudinal slots in the slidable rod 17 which extends longitudinally of the receptacle throughout its length, and is secured thereon by the heads of the eyebolts 17. Adjacent to each of said slots and pairs of eyebolts 17, a tongue or keeper 18 is carried on the slidable rod 17 adapted to engage the rings A on the free ends of the chain members 10 Said rod may be moved longitudinally to engage and disengage the keepers 18 with the eyebolts 17 and keepers 18 by the pivoted le-' ver 20.

' For the purpose of winding the links or chains 10 upon the shaft 8 and thus raise the gutter receptacle 9, I provide a cog wheel 11 rigidly attached to the shaft intermediate of its ends, which is operated by a worm 13 adapted to be turned by the wheel 14, as shown. The chain 15 is carried over the wheel 14 and depends to a position withinconvenient reach of an operator.

In operation, the chain 15 may be drawn to turn the wheel 14; and actuate the worm 13 to revolve the wheel 11 and shaft 8 where by. the chains 10 are wound upon the shaft 8 and the gutter receptacle 9 elevated. In

.- this position the entire structure may be pushed longitudinally on the track 2 and conveyed beyond and outside of the stable building and there the lever 20 may be operated to disengage the rings A from one side of the gutter which will allow the gutter to drop its contents.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by Letters Patent is:

A dumping receptacle comprising a plurality of depending chains divided at their lower ends, one of said divided chain ends being attached to the receptacle below one of its upper edges, a slidable rod carried on the opposite edge having latch members for engaging the unsecured divided members of said chains, and a lever for reciprocatlng said slidable rod and latch members for simultaneously releasing the chains from one edge of the receptacle to dump the contents thereof.

In testimony whereof I hereby afiix my si nature in the presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM ARMSTRONG.

Witnesses J. G. HAsTmes, H. E. PARKER.

Copies of'this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' i Washington, I). G. 

